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A Nietzschean experimental site, Stelarc delivers a punch of utmost severity, joining performance art with prosthetic innovation and philosophical reflection. This book brings together a colloquy of technowarriors who probe the limits of the eviscerable body, its post-pornographic submission, and hybrid presumptions. One imagines Heidegger traversed by Schreber. -- Avital Ronell, Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English, New York University, author of The Test Drive and The Telephone Book In this collection of essays, we are invited to envelop ourselves in a series of events that oscillate between tranwuil mediations and violent crashes as data, hardware, and flesh mix in a variety of unbounded artistic orchestrations. With contributions from the critics and theorists who know Stelarc best, this book contains illuminating commentary on and analysis of his technoperformative work that is as compelling and as disturbing as anything found in the most radical of science fiction novels. Welcome to the world of Stelarc. -- Steven Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble For far too long there has been a gap on many bookshelves waiting to be filled by a publication like Stelarc: The Monograph. This rich critical analysis and celebration of one of the world's most influential prescient provocative and discussed artists is an invaluable and welcome resource for everyone engaged with discourses and disciplines spanning visual performance and digital art cyberculture artificial intelligence biotechnology and robotics. -- Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency London

About the Author

Marquard Smith is Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London. He is a Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture.

William Gibson is the author of many books, including Neuromancer and, most recently, Pattern Recognition.

Marquard Smith is Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London. He is a Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture.

Jane Goodall is Director of Research in the College of Arts, Education, and Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney.

Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Theory at the University of Victoria.

Marilouise Kroker is Senior Research Scholar at the University of Victoria.

Amelia Jones is Grierson Chair in Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her books include Irrational Modernism- A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada (MIT Press), Self/Image- Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject, and Seeing Differently- A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts.

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Parables for the Virtual- Movement, Affect, Sensation and A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia- Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press).

Julie Clarke has written widely on the posthuman and the visual arts.

Stelarc is a leading international performance artist.

Marquard Smith is Director of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London. He is a Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture.

Reviews

"A Nietzschean experimental site, Stelarc delivers a punch of utmost severity, joining performance art with prosthetic innovation and philosophical reflection. This book brings together a colloquy of technowarriors who probe the limits of the eviscerable body, its post-pornographic submission, and hybrid presumptions. One imagines Heidegger traversed by Schreber."--Avital Ronell, Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English, New York University, author of *The Test Drive* and *The Telephone Book* "For far too long there has been a gap on many bookshelves waiting to be filled by a publication like *Stelarc: The Monograph*. This rich critical analysis and celebration of one of the world's most influential, prescient, provocative and discussed artists is an invaluable and welcome resource for everyone engaged with discourses and disciplines spanning visual, performance and digital art, cyberculture, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and robotics."--Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency, LondonPlease note: Quote was sent in July and will appear on the book jacket.

"A Nietzschean experimental site, Stelarc delivers a punch of utmost severity, joining performance art with prosthetic innovation and philosophical reflection. This book brings together a colloquy of technowarriors who probe the limits of the eviscerable body, its post-pornographic submission, and hybrid presumptions. One imagines Heidegger traversed by Schreber."--Avital Ronell, Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English, New York University, author of *The Test Drive* and *The Telephone Book* "For far too long there has been a gap on many bookshelves waiting to be filled by a publication like *Stelarc: The Monograph*. This rich critical analysis and celebration of one of the world's most influential, prescient, provocative and discussed artists is an invaluable and welcome resource for everyone engaged with discourses and disciplines spanning visual, performance and digital art, cyberculture, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and robotics."--Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency, LondonPlease note: Quote was sent in July and will appear on the book jacket.